by Mike “Mish” Shedlock Coming Commercial Real Estate Crisis; 3000 Community Banks at Risk Here are a couple of stories similar to thousands playing out across the country, and tens of thousands more to come. The second article gets to the heart of the upcoming commercial real estate bust. The Minneapolis Star Tribune is reporting [...]
Whatever the delusions of war planners, the costs come home and disperse. We’re waging wars on different continents, but deadly echoes reverberate here. As Lt. Gen Gregory Newbold wrote in April 2006 of the Iraq War, the decision to invade “was done with a casualness and swagger that are the special province of those who have [...]
Juan Cole at Informed Comment offers some excellent advice for climate scientists under attack from corrupt corporate and media sources. Al Gore writes that ignoring climate change won’t make it go away nor will continuing to dump 90 million tons of pollutants into the atmosphere daily at the New York Times. A 110-year-old Chicago woman reflects on Jim Crow and the civil rights movemnt in the Chicago Sun Times. Those stories and more in today’s picks.
Despite billions of additional dollars pumped into veterans benefits in recent years, many military personnel still leave service unaware of their VA benefits or of programs set up to help them transition to civilian life, a senior Defense official and veteran advocates testified Wednesday.
Regional stories on veterans’ health, education and other benefits and issues today from Jackson, Tennessee, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Shreveport, Louisiana, Billings, Montana, Austin, Texas, Fayetteville, North Carolina, Norwich, Connecticut, Durango, Colorado, and Grand Island, Nebraska
The results of the 2003 invasion of Iraq: Over 4,300 American troops, over 30,000 wounded, 100,000s traumatized, 100,000s of Iraqis killed, $3 trillion looted, Iran strengthened, the world in chaos, all for the lies of the chicken-hawks who betrayed the troops and the American people so that Iraq can engage in massive fraud just like the [...]
Rachel Corrie was a 23-year-old American peace activist from Olympia, Washington working with other citizens from all over the globe to alert the world of the brutality of Israel’s destruction and oppression of the people of Palestine. So, Israel killed her in cold blood. She was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer on March [...]
After I got home from the Army and Viet Nam, in 1969, my wife Nanci, Sherri, our baby, (who was born while I was in Viet Nam) had to regroup, and start a new life in the civilian world. I got a job as a store detective, and in turn, Nanci got pregnant. Back then, [...]
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced that the department’s Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses Task Force has nearly completed a comprehensive report that will redefine how VA addresses the pain and suffering of ill Veterans who deployed during the Gulf War in 1990 and 1991.
February 27, 2010 Chuck Palazzo Danang, Vietnam The Abandonment of the Hmong by the US Continues Why has the United States turned its back on some of the bravest and loyal people that stood by our side during the Vietnam War? The so-called “Secret War”, which began during the early 1960’s, continues to remain secret [...]
Regional stories on veterans’ health, education and other benefits and issues today from Silver City, New Mexico, Reno, Nevada, St Paul, Minnesota, Los Angeles, California, and Springfield, Missouri.
(C) James Alonzo While we did find ways to move closer in the last two years of my step-father’s life, after he was diagnosed with Terminal Cancer, there were a few things we had in common. One of them was boxing. We both loved the sport, so I would take him to the ‘fights’ when he [...]
BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE Urban Comedy: Tavis Smiley - A Crab Determined to Reach Beyond His Grasp * Well, he’s at it again, people. In spite of the fact that President Obama has saved the nation from a second Great Depression, responsible for getting a stimulus bill passed that has saved tens [...]
In an effort to improve pain management, the VHA began the “Pain as the 5th Vital Sign” initiative in 1999 which required a pain intensity rating of 0 to 10 at all VA clinical encounters. The first four vital signs are pulse(time repetitions), blood pressure(force/area), temperature(degree),and breathing rate(time repetitions) : the first four vital signs are objective with unit dimensions scientifically calibrated to the unit standard at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Utah Governor Turns Back Two Uranium Trains SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Planned shipments of depleted uranium from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River nuclear materials processing center in South Carolina will not be shipped to Utah under an agreement negotiated Monday by Utah Governor Gary Herbert. “This is a monumental win for the State of [...]
No. 152-10 ———————————— CONTRACTS: NAVY General Dynamics, National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, is being awarded an $824,642,437 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-02-C-2300) for construction of T-AKE 13 and T-AKE 14, which shall include design and construction, technical manuals, special studies, analyses and reviews, engineering and industrial services, and data. Work will [...]
Benefits reconsidered for ill Gulf War vets By Kimberly Hefling – The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Veterans Affairs Department says it will look again at the rejected claims of veterans who say their Gulf War service caused a mysterious illness, the first step toward potentially compensating them nearly two decades after the war ended. [...]
An angry U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) blasted contractor KBR today for its electrical work that has become infamous at U.S. military bases in Iraq. Dorgan called for “accountability,” saying $25 million in lost bonuses for the contractor is not sufficient for the widespread shoddy work that resulted in a Green Beret Army soldier being electrocuted, among numerous other incidents. [...]
Gulf War Veterans question how well the VA’s plan will work at reopening Gulf War Veterans’ claims on Gulf War Illness. Gulf War Veterans are concerned about how today’s headline, “VA to reopen Gulf War vets’ files”, will impact the VA’s procedures in determining their current and future benefits from the VA. Jim Bunker, president [...]
Medical researchers and veterans advocates eagerly await the findings of a University of Wisconsin-Madison study on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) focusing on how brains process anxiety and anticipation. From a November 2009 UW-Madison press release, UW-Madison Launches Study of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans, drawing increased attention as troops are coming home. Madison, Wisconsin – Why do [...]
From Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism: Goldman may have made a fatal mistake. Fatal not to the existence of the firm, but to its standing, reputation, legitimacy, and ultimately, to the thing it covets most, its profits. Power is most effective when it is used as sparingly as possible. Niall Ferguson, in book The Cash Nexus, [...]
A Dirt-Cheap and Dirty Scam Over the years, Ralph Tillman, the Director of Asset Management for the Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System, has facilitated numerous deals with Veterans property for the benefit of “non-profit,” non-Veteran organizations that include giving away a billion-dollar parcel, rent free, and leasing another for a $1 a year for [...]
Sunday, February 21, 2010 100th Consecutive Sunday Rally to “Save Our Veterans Land” plus a major Press Conference Protest Rally / 1:00 – 4:00 PM Press Conference: 2:30 PM Major Announcements by the “Old Veterans Guard” Rebuilding and Transforming This Sacred Land into a “21st Century” Veterans Home American Military Veterans in their 60s, 70s [...]
A Navy veteran whose son serving in the Navy reports she and her son were recently “very concerned when [the son] got very upset when [the veteran] posted on his Facebook references to Jesus Christ.” They both fear retaliation. Said the veteran, “It appears that our military men and women are being warned if they speak of such [religious] issues they will be [...]
Vets Say They Will Sue the Veteran’s Administration By Andres Chavez, Sun Staff Reporter Veterans and their supporters make it a 100 Sundays in a row protesting the VA A small and highly motivated group of veterans and their supporters, some in their 60s, 70s, and 80s, braved the blistery weather outside the [...]
- Bad-Suicide-Bombings: 18 Dead, 32 Wounded; Indians Targeted - ”I saw foreigners crying and shouting … It was a very bad situation inside,” said Najibullah, hotel worker. (Al Jazeera) Juan Cole has the story. Writes Cole: “[T]he Taliban are apparently attempting to destabilize the capital and to punish foreigners working to stand up the new government [...]
“Tough s__t!” That’s a precise quote. Is Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) all there? Maybe not. Does this guy have any clue, any compassion for the American people. We’re talking uninsured families and people’s lives. Families matter, pal. From Ed Kilgore: If you are unemployed, or if you are one of the millions of people hanging on [...]
The Afghan human rights commission reported that 28 civilians had been killed so far in NATO’s offensive on Marja, AP reports. The commission based its numbers on witness reports. NATO has confirmed at least 16 civilian deaths.
Douglas Valentine at Consortium News draws some parallels between our current wars and William the Conqueror, they’re not pretty. The bumpkin senator from Oklahoma has started an inquisition of climate scientists; their crimes? Being climate scientists, of course. The Taliban strike in downtown Kabul in a story from Juan Cole at Informed Comment and according to McClatchy News their goal is driving America out. Those stories and more in today’s picks.
Update: CQ Politics reports a spokeswoman for Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s U.S. Senate campaign says reports are ”patently false” that Crist will to drop out of GOP to run as an independent in the generalelection. No confirmation on whether Christ has cured his gayness. Florida Governor Charlie Crist is going to run as an independent for the Florida U.S. Senate seat, according to a [...]
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